Academic Lecture Series - Fall 2007

Academic Lecture Series co-Sponsored by Department of Student Life, Office of the Provost, Discover New York and Core Curriculum, Student Government, Inc. and the President’s Multicultural Advisory Committee. For more information, contact the Department of Student Life at (718) 990-6567, or view the brochure (PDF)

Fall 2007 Calendar

DateTimeTopicLast NameFirst NameCampusBioLocation
9/124:00 PM"Baseball Doubt, Baseball Certainty"ShoulerKennethQueensProf/AuthorLittle Theatre
9/1812:15 PM"Connecting the Dots"Forbes SiegmanGregQueens
AuthorCouncil Hall
9/1812:15 PM"How to use Pre-show classroom; creating podcasts of professors' lectures"MeadPelhamQueensProfessorSt. Augustine Hall
Room 110
9/1812:15 PM"The US Constitution: Issues that Could Make A Difference to You"Constitution Day DebateCollege Democrats/
Republicans
QueensRobert Tomes:
Faculty
Moderator
Donovan Community
Room
9/198:00 AM"Connecting the Dots"Forbes SiegmanGregSIAuthorDaSilva Academic Center,
Room 214
9/244:30 PM"Globalization: Friend or Foe to Latin American Countries?"Morin
&
Jose Luis
Gomez

Erick
QueensProfessorsDonovan Community Room
10/164:30 PM"Last Call"ScarpoBrettQueensDirectorUC Commons
10/167:00 PM"Conversations with Katharine Weber Who owns History? Making Fiction from the Facts of the Triangle Fire of 1911"
WeberKatharineQueensAuthorCarnesecca
10/176:00 PM"Journey to a Hate Free Millennium"ScarpoBrettQueensDirectorUC Commons
10/177:00 PM"'Saint' Dorothy Day"JordanPatrickSIEditorCampus Center
Upper Level
10/1812:15 PM"Mysteries of the City: Politics, Culture, and New York's Underworld in Turn of the Century America"CzitromDanielQueensProfessor/
Author
Council Hall
10/1812:15 PM"How to use Pre-show classroom; creating podcasts of professors' lectures"MeadPelhamSIProfessorDaSilva 109
10/2312:15 PM"Doctors Without Borders: Serving Refugees"Dialogues on the
Future; Meeting
the World's People
Sponsored by
the Provost
QueensProfessors
Blake and
Brown; Guest
Speaker;
student rep
Donovan Community
Room
10/2512:15 PM"New York City and the 70s"WeissJamesSIProfessorCampus Center Gymnasium
10/293:30 PM"Why Biotech is Really Poetry: Mimesis and Science in Plato, Shakespeare, and Crick"TurnerHenryQueensProfessor,
Rutgers U
Bent 277
11/73:00 PM"Powering Up Your Poster Presentation"Creel
&
Rioux
Stacey

Kevin
QueensProfessorsSt. Augustine Hall
Room 412
11/812:15 PM"The Jews of Greece: A Personal Perspective and Journey"MatathiasAsherQueensEducatorCouncil Hall
11/125:00 PM"Status Report College Mental Health: challenges and opportunities"KadisonRichardQueensAuthor/
Harvard
Professor
Little Theatre
11/143:30 PM"My Idea of A University"Faculty – Student ForumQueensVarious
Speakers
Bent Hall, Room 277A
11/1512:15 PM"The Challenge of Parent Engagement in Urban Schools and the Outcomes for Society"Parent Engagement ProgramQueensVarious
Professors
UC Storm
11/2712:15 PM"Travel Memoirs; life in Tuscany; creative writing; poetry"MayesFrancesSIAuthorKelleher
Center
11/2712:15 PM"The Challenges of Literacy in a Diverse Society"Literacy ProgramQueensVarious
Professors
UC Storm
11/277:00 PM"Travel Memoirs; life in Tuscany; creative writing; poetry"MayesFrancesQueensAuthorMarillac  Terrace
11/283:00 PM"Nothing Dies on The Internet"Creel
&
Rioux
Stacey

Kevin
QueensProfessorsSt. Augustine Hall
Room 412

12/034:30 PM"New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in 18th Century Manhattan"LeporeJillQueensHarvard
Professor
Marillac Auditorium